Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 12C

  • In this week’s gospel, the disciples ask Jesus how to pray. And he responds by giving them a prayer to pray.

  • In teaching his disciples “The Lord’s Prayer,” Jesus reveals the relational vision of forgiveness; as an opportunity.

  • In this in-between, we get a whole host of teaching on what loving does and doesn’t look like.

  • Let’s be honest. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray. How. Not what. How. Teach us how to pray! They ask him. Jesus responds to their request with “When you pray, say:” Jesus doesn’t teach them how to pray. Proper 12C  |  Luke 11:1-13 If we remember back in chapters 9 and 10, Jesus is…

  • When We Pray

    a homily for Proper 12C Text: Luke 11:1-13 The Lord Praying They have left the house of Mary and Martha and it says  Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” Jesus was praying,…